… Folkman and Greer [18] suggested that in addition to a symptom-orientated approach to
general chronic illness, there should be more focus on achieving psychological well-being. We …

… interpersonal effects of three personality traits—neuroticism, extraversion and
conscientiousness—on depression and examine whether acceptance of illness mediates the actor …

… may represent not only the point in the denial process at which acceptance of the illness’s
existence begins [30], but also it may be an effective method for facing the phases of the …

… Personality traits, essential for such acceptance include: hope, optimism, determination,
belief in success and persistence. Disease characteristics required for its psychosocial …

… acceptance show more improvement in MQoL. We propose to specifically target acceptance
… Neuroticism was measured only at pre-treatment as we considered this personality trait to …

… The five-factor model of personality is the product of over four … basic dimensions of personality
are represented by five traits:(a) … The most salient personality traits in behavioral medicine …

… to the increase of the quality of life assessed by patients, are internal resources, including
coping with stress and strategies for coping with cancer or personality traits (optimism) [25, 26]. …

… were found as significant predictor of acceptance of illness. This suggests that even though
suppression of anger was correlated with acceptance of illness in a single variable analysis (…

… The purpose of this study was to analyze correlations between quality of life (QoL),
acceptance of illness (AI), and health behaviors (HB) demonstrated by chronically ill patients of …

… traits and type of illness. A primary response to the diagnosis can be denial, underestimation,
acceptance or … The aim of the study was to analyze the level of illness acceptance and its …